Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

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  1. 1.

    Yutsano

    I got less than nothin’.

    Yeah, pretty much.

    I’m trying to keep my stressball moving time to a week if at all possible, from signing the lease to getting the house packed and settled. I’m running into too many cute houses syndrome, I know at some point I’ll have to pick one and live with the choice. All in my price range too.

  4. 4.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: I got just about everything accomplished or planned out for this week, so it is a possibility. I’m just afraid I’ll take the first house I look at, which is sort of an issue with me. I really should take my mom to go hunt with me.

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Mom would be A) less whiny about getting up in the morning to go and B) has a better discernment for determining what living accommodations will work for both of us. She’s an old Navy wife, figuring out housing that will work is right up her alley. Plus I know my brother, he’ll just expect me to pick a place then complain about it.

  8. 8.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: I’m trying to compile a list of around 5-6 houses (my preference to live in a house) that will take my cat. I’ve been pleasantly surprised at what’s available, since I can plan a commute around just about anywhere as long as it doesn’t turn into two hours. I’ve been looking in the southeast part of the city, which isn’t the best as far as neighborhoods, but I’ll figure all that out.

  9. 9.

    wobbly

    This is more for DougJ than Annie Laurie….

    I hope he knows, as I do, living large in Rochester, New York, that he and I squat on land seized from the Iroquois. There is not whole lot left of them actually, but the few that remain stick up for themselves, in odd ways.

    Like insisting that their (pathetic) reservations are sovereign nations, free to sell cigarettes and gasoline without collecting New York State taxes. Or trying to attend lacrosse tournaments in the United Kingdom with their own sovereign nation passports in hand, rather than the ones issued by their conquerors.

    The Iroquois invented lacrosse, right?

    I guess it’s cool that the Brits play it and that the Iroquois had some hope of crossing the pond and competing until this:

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100714/ap_on_sp_ot/us_lacrosse_iroquois_passports

    happened.

    From what I gather, it’s the Brits who shut them down. The selfsame Brits whose alliance with with the Iroquois provided the excuse for the American revolutionaries to all but kill them off back in the day.

    Jeez, one of the players is named Jemison. Most likely the son of the son of the son of the son of the famed “White Woman of the Genesee” whose Iroquois husband sided with the British and paid a heavy price.

    I guess it’s stupid to care about sports or Indians or injustice, but I just can’t help myself.

  10. 10.

    bkny

    and the wapo comes thru with a healthy assist (gotta love the header):

    2008 voter-intimidation case against New Black Panthers a political bombshell

    By Krissah Thompson
    Washington Post Staff Writer
    Thursday, July 15, 2010; A03

    A 2008 voter-intimidation case has become a political controversy for the Obama administration as conservative lawyers, politicians and commentators raise concerns that the Department of Justice has failed to protect the civil rights of white voters.

    The discussion centers on whether the Justice Department’s civil rights division mishandled a lawsuit against members of the New Black Panther Party, which was filed weeks before the Obama administration took office. The suit was focused on the party and two of its members, who stood out front of a polling place in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008 wearing military gear. They were captured on video and were accused of trying to discourage some people from voting. One carried a nightstick.

  11. 11.

    JGabriel

    HuffPo:

    Asked to tell racists “you’re not welcome” in the tea party, [Tea Party Express spokesman Mark] Williams replied, “Racists have their own movement. It’s called the NAACP.”

    Duuude! Way to court the black vote! You tell’em, GOP!

    With minority outreach like that, I don’t know how the Dems will ever convince voters that Republicans are still the party of unreconstructed racists.

    .

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    NPR is reporting a pattern of deliberate bypassing of methane monitors at Upper Big Branch and other Massey Energy mines, on direct orders of supervisors and other “higher-ups.” Some workers are beginning to speak out, but you can tell they are scared to death they’ll lose their jobs. The only one who gave his name has already been fired. He’s just received a grand jury subpoena.

    What a depressing way to start the day.

    Oh, and now NPR sees fit to mention that the BP explosion in the Gulf happened twelve weeks ago today.

  14. 14.

    BrYan

    On gliberatrians and Obamacare,

    This post by Wilkerson http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/would-hayek-vote-for-obamacare.html had that drizzling with McCardlism BS that these assholes are known for. Summed up with a smug line about Singapore health care with no real information about how they do it. There was something fishy about it.

    Sure enough a Sully reader did come through

    http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/07/would-hayek-vote-for-obamacare-ctd.html

    Perhaps he should investigate how heavily involved the Singapore government is in the local health care sector - from owning hospital groups that compete with the private sector, directing retail prices for doctors, ensuring low cost drugs are available, mandating individual health accounts and restricting how they can be used, etc.

  15. 15.

    Mnemosyne

    @wobbly:

    The Brits probably wouldn’t have shut them down if the US government hadn’t decided to be enormous dicks about it, first. I think the Brits had a not unreasonable fear that the State Department would change their minds again and leave the players stranded in England after the tournament was over.

    So, somewhat dickish of the Brits, but they were really responding to the asshole bureaucrat in the US who decided that the team shouldn’t be allowed to travel on these passports even though (IIRC) they’ve done it as recently as 6 months ago.

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